Asia Peace Film Festival In Full Swing At PNCA
Anees Ahmed (@Aneesah05582539) Published September 19, 2017 | 11:10 AM
Asia Peace Film Festival (APFF) in full swing here at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) which is attracting a large number of people from different walks of life
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Sep, 2017 ) : Asia Peace Film Festival (APFF) in full swing here at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) which is attracting a large number of people from different walks of life.
As many as 113 documentaries, films and other content from 30 countries would be shown in three days film festival. International delegates from South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Japan, Turkey, Hongkong and etc participating in the first ever Asia Peace Film Festival.
The cinema can bring the Asian societies closer and together to fight the challenges being faced by the most populace continent. The International delegates filmmakers, Directors and Producers includes Komeil Soheili, Kim Jooyoung, Nikkin Loke Sau Mui, Liguer Tu, Min Min Hein, Hassnain Imran Hani, Boopathy Wickramage, Merve Cirisoglu Cotur, Fatemeh Hassanzadeh, Kamboziya Partovi, Nasrin Moradi, Hamid Reza Soheili, Mariya Saeed, Sahraa Karimi, Syed Jala Rohani, Anne Hellen Geroe Demy and Amir Masoud Soheili.
The PNCA Director General Syed Jamal Shah was of the view that film has a larger canvas for the dissemination of any message that could bring a positive change. The Federal government support to the APFF speaks of the deep interest to maintain peace in the country and in the world.
"The Asia Peace Film Festival would change Pakistan's image worldwide," he said. As a future project, APFF has plans to design and conduct short courses on `film for peace' engaging Asian universities, press clubs and media academies.
APFF would design and conduct annual editions of the festival on co-host basis engaging yearly with a new country of Asian region. First APFF is Pakistan Edition 2017. The finalists of APFF-Pakistan Edition would be decorated with National Awards from the Government of Pakistan.
The finalist films would be screened as a part of learning curriculum and case studies at the media and communication departments of universities as well as at the press clubs across Asia.
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